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Susan Napaltjarri
Date of birth: 1-8-1972 Born: Papunya
Susan lives at Kintore, a remote community north west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. She is married to Duncan Reid. Susan has been painting for 2 years. Susan's mother Ningurra Naparulla whose works are sought after by collectors both in Australia and abroad taught her how to paint woman's dreaming.
Susan paints predominantly in three colours, a black background with the design element painted in a dark red and then stippling thick white or sandy colours in between the design. The concentric circles in the painting represent the rock holes and sacred sites of the women, the striped cone shapes are water vessels constructed by the women made of wood and the dark oval shapes are bush tucker the women have collected such as bush tomato. Women are shown as u shapes sitting on the earth with their long oval coolamon bowls for holding bush tucker.
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